Improvement in lamp-burners



A. BARKER.

Lamp-Burners.

PatentedMay 26,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ABEL BARKER, OF WYOMING, ASSIGNOR OFONE-,HALF HIS RIGHT TO ABE'IUS H. WINTON AND BENJAMIN H. THROOP, OFSCBANTON, PA.

IMPROVEMENT IN 'LAMP-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,195, dated May 26,1874; application led February 23, 1874.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, ABEL BAEKER, of Wyoming, county of Luzerne and Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented `a new and useful Improvement in LampTops or Burners, to prevent the oil which passes up the wick by capillary attraction, or through thejoint or screw connecting the lamp topor burner with the lamp, from overflowing and running down over theoutside of the lamp; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part ofthis specilieation, in which'- Figure I is a vertical section. Figs. IIand III are transverse sections of the same, showing the cupsA and C,the chamber B with the openings (t t into it, the openin gs c c throughthe wick-tube to the wick, and the openings b b for the oil collected inthe cup A to liow down the outside of the tube into the chamber B.

In constructing a lamp top or burner with this improvement around anykind of tube or chamber for the wick, I make the cup A to catch anyoverflow of oil from the top, either from imperfect combustion when thelamp is burning or bycapillary attraction when it is not. From this cupthe oil is conducted down the outside of said tube into the chamber B,where, by holes through the wick-tube, or by making it in two sections,the overow communicates with the wick, by which it is absorbed, andagain carried up by capillary attraction. To prevent the overflowfromthe screw or connection of the top or burner with the lamp, I putaround the female screw, which is attached to the lamp, the cup or ringC, ex= tending any suitable distance above the connectiou, to receiveany oil working up through the screw or running down from above, evenwith the top of that part of the connection at tached to the lamp. Imake one or more holes in the male screw to allow the oil in the cup Cto pass into the chamber B, whereby, coming' in contact with the wickthrough the openings c c in the Wick-tube, it is absorbed and carried upthe same as the overflow from the top.

By this arrangement the oil is brought into direct contact with thewick, by which it is taken up, instead of being conducted back into thelamp through holes from which the gas would escape, or left to run downover the outside ot the lamp. This arrangement may be modified so as toadapt it to any of the lamptops now in use.

I do not claim the cup C; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of thecup A, having openings b b in its bottom, incombination with the chamber B,'having a close bottom and openings a, atinto the cup G, and with the wick-tu be having openings c '0,substantially as :and for the purpose set forth. t

ABEL BARKER. f Witnesses:

C. WILLIAMS, EVEIEETT WARREN.

